196 HENRY SOTHERAN & CO., 140, STRAND, W.C., AND 37, PICCADILLY, W. 



3892 RANKINE (William John Macquorn, F.R.S.) MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC PAPERS, from the 

 Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal and other Scientific or Philosophical Societies, and the 

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 portrait on steel by Adlard, 4 plates, and numerous diagrams, thick roy. 8vo. cl.. uncut, IQs Gd 

 (p. 1. ll*6rf) 1881 



The work is divided into 3 parts : Temperature, Elasticity, and Expansion of Vapours, Liquids, and Solids ; Energy 

 and its Transformations, Thermodynamics, Mechanical Action of Heat in the Steam Engine, etc. ; Wave Forms, Propul- 

 sion of Vessels, Stability of Structures, etc. ; and contains his application (simultaneously with Lord Kelvin and 

 Clausius) of the doctrine that heat and work are convertible, to the discovery of new relations among the properties of 

 bodies ; as well as all his important papers on molecular physics. 



3893 - MANUAL of APPLIED MECHANICS, llth Ed., thoroughly revised by W. J. MILLAR, 

 numerous diagrams, thick cr. 8vo. cl., os (p. 12s Gd) 1885 



3894 MANUAL of CIVIL ENGINEERING, 2nd Ed., revised, numerous diagrams, thick cr. 8vo. cl., 



3s (p. 16) 1865 



3895 MANUAL of MACHINERY and MILL WORK, first edition, numerous diagrams, thick 



cr. 8vo. cl., 3 (p. 12 Gd) 1869 



3896 MANUAL of the STEAM ENGINE, and other PRIME MOVERS, llth Ed., revised by W. J. 



MILLAR, folding plates, and numerous woodcuts and diagrams, thick cr. 8vo. cl., 5s (p. 12s Gd) 1885 

 The first treatise on the steam engine which was based on the mechanical theory of heat, and still one of the best text- 

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3897 USEFUL RULES and TABLES relating to Mensuration, Engineering, Structures, and 



Machines, first edition, with plate and diagrams, cr. 8yo. cl., 2s Gd (p. 9s) 1866 



' Rankine was one of the little group of thinkers to whom, after the wondrous Sadi Carnot, the world is indebted for 

 the pure science of modern thermodynamics But his services to applied science were relatively even greater. By his 

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 times for the advancement of British Scientific Engineering'. Prof. Tail. 



v. SHIPBUILDING, post. 



3898 RAOTJLT (Fra^ois M., Grenoble) CRYOSCOPIE ; with portrait and woodcuts, post 8vo. boards, 

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3S99 RAPHSON (Jrseph, F.R.S.) ANALYSIS ^EQUATIONUM UNIVERSALIS, seu ad ^Equationes 

 Algebraicas resolvendas Methodus Generalis. et Expedita, ex nova Infinitarum Serierum Methodo, 

 deducta ac demonstrata. Ed. II., cum Appendice. cui annexum est, de SPATIO REALI, seu Ente 

 Infinito Conamen Mathematico-Metaphysicum ; with diagrams, 2 vols. 4to. in 1, old caff, with 

 armorial bookplate of J. L. CALANDRINI [1703-58, predecessor of G. Cramer at the Genevese 

 Academy], and MS. equations by him on flyleaf (RARE), 16s Gd Londini, 1697 



' La methode suivie par Raphson difleie encore fort peu de celle de Newton. II lui a seulement donne quelqr.es degre"s 

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 dixieme, font connottre le numerateur et le denominateur de la fraction qu'il faut ajouter & la racine dej'a a-peiTpres ou 

 deja approchee par le calcul.' Montitcla. 



3900 The HISTORY of FLUXIONS, showing in a Compendious Manner the first Rise of, and 



various Improvements made in that INCOMPARABLE METHOD, first edition, with diagrams, 

 4to. old calf, with bookplate of Edward mh Duke of Norfolk, EM. (RARE), 1. 5s 1715 



An important work in connexion with the contest between Newton and Leibniz as to the priority of the invention of 

 the differential calculus On p. P7 fir.st appears an important letter from the latter to the Abbe Conti, in which he admits 

 that ' Collins me fit voir une partie de son commerce'. In a second letter (p. 106) he writes : ' Je n'ay jamais nie qu '& mon 

 second Voyage en Angleterre j'aye vft quelques Lettres de M. Newton chez M. Collins, mais je n'en ay jamais vu ou 

 M. Newton aitexplique sa Methode des Fluxions'. 



Bound up with the above are : The DOCTRINE of ULTJMATOBS, or the tiue and genuine Foundation of what has hitheito 

 mistakenly pre\ ailed under the improper Names of Fluxions and the Differential Calculus, by John Kirkby, pr., with 

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3901 BASPAIL (Franqois Vincent) NOUVEAU SYSTEME de CHIMIE ORGANIQUE, fonde sur des 

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Dedicated ' a mon pauvre Maltre, 1'Abbe" Eysseric '. The work had the honour of being placed on the Index by Decree 

 of July 28, 1834. Jt is important, as the first woik in which the microscope was successfully employed in the study of 

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3902 RASPE (Rudolph Erich) ACCOUNT of some GERMAN VOLCANOS, and their Productions, with 

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'Humbly presented by the author '.Infer, on title. The work (which is unknown to Poggend'orn"), is mainly of 

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 for theft. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, but struck off the rolls on his antecedents becoming known. He 

 was the author of the original ' Baron Munchausen ', and a swindler of a most interesting type, on whom the character of 

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3903 CRITICAL ESSAY on OIL-PAINTING ; proving that this Art was known BEFORE the 



PRETENDED DISCOVERY of JOHN and HUBERT VAN EYCK, with THEOPHILUS de Arte Pingendi, 

 ERACLIUS de Artibus Romanorum, and a Review of Farinator's Lumen Animae, with fs. plate, 4to. 

 sewn (rare), 12s 1781 



3904 RATHBORNE (Aaron) The SURVEYOR, in Foure bookes ; with finely engraved title with 

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 numerous diagrams, folio, old hf. white vellum, with arms on sides, rebackcd (FINE COPY) ; VERY 

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' The most valuable of the kind that was possessed by those times.' Donaldson's Agricult. Eiog. Nothing seems to be 

 known of the author. The various books comprise: I. The Elements of Geometric, with Theorems; II. The Use and 

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 the Peractor, and of a Chayne, which I call the Decimall Chayne, with the divisions and parts thereof: which rightly 

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